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5300 BCE
Prehistoric Age
is technology that predates recorded history. Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric, including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt and bury their dead. Link text -
Industrial Age
a period of history that encompasses the changes in the economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. The Industrial Age was supplanted by the Information Age in the late 20th century. (https://www.scribd.com/document/339559592) -
Electronic Age
The Electronic Age began when electronic e3uipment, including computers, came into use. (https://www.scribd.com/document/339559592/The-Evolution-of-Traditional-Media) -
New Information Age
(also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age or New Media Age). Is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the industrial revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization.
